, lead actor Jillian Nguyen jumped on a plane to Europe. Did she go for a holiday in Positano perhaps, or maybe a job in Prague?
“I did ‘pure clown’ in the first week, which I absolutely adored – it’s the art of the clown,” Jillian says. “Then we had vaudeville and, which I was terrible at. Bouffon is kind of like if Chris Lilley and Sacha Baron Cohen made a subject. skills. The series is set in 1971 Australia and centres on a group of best friends during a time when surfing counterculture collides with enterprise.Jillian plays Tracy Dwyer , a high-school art teacher and partner to Bill “Trotter” Dwyer , who is launching his surfwear company, LightWave. The story is fictional but has parallels to the early days of rival surf brands Billabong and Quiksilver.
While her character is Chinese-Australian, 29-year-old Jillian’s heritage is Vietnamese. She first arrived in Australia as a baby in 1994, a fact that made her question if women like Tracy truly existed here in the 1970s. Jillian’s parents escaped Vietnam in the ’80s before settling in Melbourne. She wears the Joslin “Diane” dress, $880.“Although it’s the ’70s, it made me see my parents in the ’90s. I saw every woman around me that I grew up with and how they were treated by their male counterparts. And even though these women were also powerful, they made themselves smaller.”
The family settled in the inner west of Melbourne where Jillian says they enjoyed being part of a diverse mix of cultures – Vietnamese, Chinese, Italian, Greek, Ethiopian, and others. “That was my childhood until I was 19, then my world changed,” she reflects.Jillian began studying for an Arts degree at Melbourne University and felt like a minority among the predominantly white, middle-class students. But it was around this time that she fell in love with acting.
Jillian Nguyen thinks of Australia in the seventies as white. Fair enough. But did Vietnam have diversity then or does it even have that now? Stop bagging white culture. They have a right to exist too. And I am an immigrant!
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